I’m so thankful to be a youth pastor. My wife and I jumped into full time ministry 21 years ago as newlyweds. We had our first of four sons three days before our first anniversary. The youth group called him “Cletus the Fetus.” Heather wasn’t as impressed as I was with their ...
It’s my anniversary! Not my wedding anniversary. That’s coming up on Monday. It’s the third anniversary of the day my body tried to kill me. The third anniversary of a doctor in the ER saying, “You have bilateral pulmonary embolisms.” And me responding,“I can’t die! I have ...
even any anniversary–it has the potential to of course prompt reflection, and reflection that is based on gratitude. And truly that is where most of my reflection has been directed. It’s directed toward that for which I am grateful in my life. ...
My wife and I are also about to celebrate our twenty fifth wedding anniversary. When my parents celebrated theirs, Emily and I were just beginning to date. It is crazy how fast time flies. We have a daughter, Brittany, who is newly married to Mason; Caleb (whom I already mentioned), ...
We prayed for the 15th anniversary that commemorates that genocide in Rwanda that killed more than 800,000 innocent lives. We grieved over another mass shooting at a Korean Christian retreat center, a center that helped the orphans and the homeless. It is no less than 8 such mass shootings ...
June marks my second anniversary since moving to Shamokin from Cape May County, NJ. where the ocean was just four miles away from my home. I have heard all the jokes and I’m not laughing anymore. God brought me here and He didn’t relocate me so I could sit in the corner and eat...